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WARNING: BY READING THIS THREAD YOU ARE VOLUNTEERING FOR D-CLASS TESTING ON THE EFFECTS OF SELF-INSERT CHARACTERS, FANFICTION, AND [DATA EXPUNGED]. For those not in know, the SCP Foundation (SCP stands for "Secure Contain Protect") is what you'd get if you crossed the X-Files with CSI, with the same level of investigative competence. It all got started as a one-off joke on 4chan's paranormal /x/ boards with an unusual copypasta. If that article reads suspiciously close to a Weeping Angel from Doctor Who, consider that it began to show up shortly after the first Weeping Angel episode aired in 2007. Since the internet can't let go of anything, fast forward to 2014 and there are now over 2,000 paranormal objects, creatures, and phenomena analyzed in a quasi-scientific manner. Most are forgettable and interchangeable (just like most X-Files and CSI episodes!), some are hilariously awful, and a very few are actually great horror. Most SCPers confuse killing tons of people with automatically being scary; their ultimate horror movie monster just effortlessly mutilated 23 armed guards, it's so badass you guys. And so, so many "ongoing plotlines" with "original characters" across multiple articles that can only be completely followed by someone dumb enough to engage in their infamously drama-filled forums. There are other much more knowledgeable posters on this subject and I'll let them fill us in if they decide to drop by. I've taken a look into the hive--even registered an account once--and I'm not doing that to myself. So what are you waiting for?! Dive into a madness that is only Lovecraftian because of its userbase! Search out your favorite, your worst favorites, maybe involve yourself in a years-long character drama that develops into a tragic online polyamorous relationship with wannabe horror writers that will leave you a bitter shell of who you used to be! Then (this is the important part) share that [DATA EXPUNGED] with the rest of us! Genuinely good SCPs(read 'em with the lights out)  186: To End All Wars 093: Red Sea Object 087: The Stairwell 1733: Season Opener 701: The Hanged King's Tragedy 140: An Incomplete Chronicle 106: The Old Man & Short Story: The Young Man 1425: Star Signals  Tryhards & 2random4u: An Abbreviated Selection 871: Self-Replacing Cake thread consensus is that Deus is a bad poster for not liking this one 586: Inscribable Object 682: Hard-to-Destroy Lizard 231: Special Personnel Requirements 145: Man-Absorbing Phone 058: Heart of Darkness  New Category! Hilarity! 2063: A Past Vision of the Future Retrieval Log 503 1171: Humans Go Home! 572: Katana of Apparent Invincibility saberwulf posted:SHUT THE gently caress UP ABOUT 110-MONTAUK AND ABLE DeusExMachinima has a new favorite as of 20:54 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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#231 always bothered me the most. I always got the sense it was some creepy nerd's justification for rape.
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Sep 14, 2014 20:48
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Canemacar posted:#231 always bothered me the most. I always got the sense it was some creepy nerd's justification for rape. It is. That's all it is.
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Sep 14, 2014 21:02
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http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-261 and http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-914 are my favorites, mostly because of the long logs that contain some funny stuff. I am probably easily amused though  .There is also the story where they play a game with a statuette, I forgot the number of that one. edit: found, http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-050 . See attached document. edit edit: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-455 (Cargo Ship aka "Boat of Leaves") is one of my favorite scary ones except those mentioned in the topicstart. Laserjet 4P has a new favorite as of 21:18 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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Sep 14, 2014 21:14
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This is one I wrote something like three years ago. I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking at the time.
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Sep 14, 2014 21:23
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I've always liked SCP ____
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Sep 14, 2014 21:27
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Night10194 posted:It is. That's all it is. Uh I think u will find that, because u are the one who said it was rape, that it is u who wants it to be rape, sicko
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Sep 14, 2014 22:21
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I hate the joke ones because nobody on that site is funny but some of the surreal/unexplainable ones can be neat like scp-1950
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Sep 14, 2014 22:21
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g0lbez posted:I hate the joke ones because nobody on that site is funny but some of the surreal/unexplainable ones can be neat like scp-1950 hmm this is mostly true but http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-789-j
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Sep 14, 2014 22:30
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This is the best joke SCP: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-001-ex-j
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Sep 14, 2014 22:33
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Lamprey Cannon posted:This is one I wrote something like three years ago. I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking at the time. Haha, I remember reading this one years ago and going "What the hell? That's it?" You had an interesting concept. Did you mean to end it abruptly or was there a cut ending? As long as it wouldn't have ended with DATA REDACTED.
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Sep 14, 2014 23:25
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Probably favorite one is 342 - Ticket to Ride. That one is actually unsettling to me. 178 - 3D Specs is a creepy one, too, also 184 - The Architect. The funniest is either the Pesterbot one someone already posted, or 1735 - Kind of Impenetrable Barrier, another self-aware one.
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Sep 15, 2014 00:44
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I've always liked http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-439 - a parasitic insect that infects humans to create fortified nests and http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-455 - a derelict ship with weird time and space anomolies.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:27
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What is the sentient calculator one?
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Remember that Hi-larious gag with testing every potentially deadly SCP with 682? That sure didn't wear out it's welcome quickly or anything. I was looking for that one SCP about the machine that can refine stuff or make it coarser, but I found this which I thought was pretty interesting. It probably would work better as a short story than a wiki article, but that's what I feel about a lot of the good ones on the site. Inzombiac posted:What is the sentient calculator one? Right here EDIT: Huh, someone posted the one I was looking for earlier  . I thought it had a different picture, but it was 914.
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Sep 15, 2014 08:33
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I don't know, the joke SCPs kind of dig at people in general in clever ways sometimes. I mean, they wrote a quick one about Tankapults. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2041-j You have to admit though, a loving tankapult would be incredible. I also always thought I Am a Toaster was clever. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-426 That and kind of horrifying.
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Sep 15, 2014 09:59
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http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-076 Freakin' Able, the ultimate Mary Sue.
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Sep 15, 2014 10:22
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My favorites have always been the crazy exploration ones, like the ship a few of you have posted, and the architect thing. I know there was another one that involved going through a body of water and ending up somewhere with sharp, red grass. And then at the end of the log there's an addendum that said something about the SCP described doesn't exist and the logs just showed up somewhere. Anyone know which one it is? EDIT: Ah, found it! http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-354 spooky red pool that has never been explored. But some exploration logs showed up in the office anyways!
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Sep 15, 2014 15:01
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Inzombiac posted:What is the sentient calculator one? The calculator is one of my favorites. I'm on my phone and can't look up the numbers, but I enjoy the SCPs that are both silly and strange: the vending machine with an attitude that keeps giving one researcher nothing but acorns (I think?), the propeller plane that thinks its a bird, the phonograph that loves The Rainbow Connection, the giant arm who calls every week to complain about being stuck, MOTH HELM. I feel as if a lot of the "main staff" of SCP wiki forget there are wonderful things that need protection from plain, old, jerkface humanity. Like the old school funhouse cowboy prop who thinks he's a real boy, or the eye-pods that render 173 harmless.
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Sep 15, 2014 15:16
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Canemacar posted:#231 always bothered me the most. I always got the sense it was some creepy nerd's justification for rape. 
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Sep 15, 2014 17:22
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Nah nah you don't get it. True art is grimdark.SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:the eye-pods that render 173 harmless. That was just written so someone could sleep after reading 173.
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Sep 15, 2014 17:25
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kinmik posted:The skeeviest thing about it is that in the description for that one, it says the subject's appearance is that of a "female between █ and ██ years of age". That first redacted bit looks like only one digit. I noticed that too.  Bleh.
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Sep 15, 2014 17:55
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There's actually fanart out there of SCP-231- none of it is too explicit, but I'm still not linking it here. Ugh.
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Sep 15, 2014 17:58
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I don't know, the joke SCPs kind of dig at people in general in clever ways sometimes. I mean, they wrote a quick one about Tankapults. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2041-j You have to admit though, a loving tankapult would be incredible. Document 2041-j is the best loving thing on that site.
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Sep 15, 2014 18:49
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So have all the good ones already been posted? I've been skimming through and it's all a bunch of boring objects that cause you to KILL YOURSELF or have NIGHTMARES or just generic scary creatures that KILL YOU or cause you to have NIGHTMARES
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g0lbez posted:So have all the good ones already been posted? I've been skimming through and it's all a bunch of boring objects that cause you to KILL YOURSELF or have NIGHTMARES or just generic scary creatures that KILL YOU or cause you to have NIGHTMARES http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-089 Well, this one is at least a little unsettling? http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1342 And this one's pretty interesting: what if we get a response from the Voyager? There are definitely more good ones that haven't been posted, but yeah if you're just skimming through you'll more often than not run into the less-than-good SCP's, unfortunately.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:11
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I like 682. It's a convenient MacGuffin for any other sort of SCP involving "unstoppable but convenient weaponry" or whatever. I'd managed to block out 231 until now. Ick.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:16
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g0lbez posted:So have all the good ones already been posted? I've been skimming through and it's all a bunch of boring objects that cause you to KILL YOURSELF or have NIGHTMARES or just generic scary creatures that KILL YOU or cause you to have NIGHTMARES Yeah, nerds are pretty boring but there's more good ones out of 2,000+. The highly rated articles, stories, or SCP of the week are more likely to yield gold. 1425: Star Signals 1548: Hateful Star Short Story: 5,700 Years Later There's also a more fantasy based, less CSI-ish spinoff of the Foundation called the Wanderer's Library. Less drama and tryhard filled only because it's way less focused on monsters and a much small userbase. http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/there-were-six-of-us-once
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Sep 15, 2014 19:34
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They moved Pufferkittens to the Joke Entry section? I hate them. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2558-j
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Sep 15, 2014 20:38
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This is the best SCP. Racist alien communicating through windowpane scribbling. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1171
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Sep 15, 2014 21:04
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LupusAter posted:This is the best SCP. Racist alien communicating through windowpane scribbling. this is pretty funny, highly rated, proclick
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:The calculator is one of my favorites. I'm on my phone and can't look up the numbers, but I enjoy the SCPs that are both silly and strange: the vending machine with an attitude that keeps giving one researcher nothing but acorns (I think?), the propeller plane that thinks its a bird, the phonograph that loves The Rainbow Connection, the giant arm who calls every week to complain about being stuck, MOTH HELM. The acorns were actually apple seeds. It started with the vending machine that takes only Yen and gives out snacks based on how much you feed it. Sometimes absurd things came out of it and the machine would apparently give more ancient snack types if old bills were put in and really, really incredible things if lots of money was put in. One of the researchers gave it one Yen to see what would happen and it gave him an apple seed. The machine apparently got pissed off and mangled reality to keep giving the guy apple seeds when interacting with other SCPs. Kind of a funny touch. g0lbez posted:So have all the good ones already been posted? I've been skimming through and it's all a bunch of boring objects that cause you to KILL YOURSELF or have NIGHTMARES or just generic scary creatures that KILL YOU or cause you to have NIGHTMARES Yeah that's the problem with SCP being a thing on the internet of moderate fame. Every idiot suddenly wants to be a part of it and attach their name to it for the e-cred. Where a lot of people fail is thinking that weird fiction is all about HORRIBLE TERROR and SECRETS MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO KNOW. In an effort to make TEH SCARYEST THING EVAR they just go over the top and make it insanely dangerous. Something doesn't need to have 9,000 ways to kill you to be scary. The best SCPs are the ones that are completely harmless but would still be unnerving as hell to be in the same room as. Or they're stuff that just flat out ignores the rules of reality as we know them. The Flesh That Hates is a good one for the latter part. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-610 It won't kill you. That's now what it does. You get infected by it and it takes you over. Then it makes you aggressively spread it. The traffic light tree is a good idea of a thing that violates The Rules but doesn't actually hurt anything. http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-376 It really makes no sense and is creepy basically because "wait what the hell?" Other times you just get weird things where the "protect" part comes in. Cassy comes to mind. http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-085
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http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1981 "Ronald Reagan Cut Up While Talking." This one's pretty good. Read all the excerpts.
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Sep 15, 2014 22:15
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Here's another neat one I found while skimming through http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1250
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Admiral Bosch posted:http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1981 That one gets a lot of flak for being too grimdark or whatev but I like all the weird "off" recording ones
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Sep 15, 2014 22:17
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The story isn't all that much, but I'd still like to know where someone got the picture for http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173. It's apparently someone someone found in an abandoned building...
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Sep 15, 2014 23:19
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It's a sculpture made by a Japanese artist.
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Sep 15, 2014 23:23
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1) Thank you! 2) The artist made worse... http://izumikato.com/Untitled-2005
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I like the underlying idea behind 231, that they have to do the worst things imaginable to stop something even worse - people have to give up everything just to save anything. Being that rapey is just kinda, yeah... Seems too rape fantasy. And then there's the fact the people involved can get their memory's erased, so there's no sacrifice. And before anyone gets all lovely and takes what I wrote as an endorsement for the entry, it's not. It's a bit of an example of the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good, which can be a promising premise.
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My favorite is the sea anemone that is made of poop and cum that rapes you with its shitsemen
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